[silence] silence, sound, music, noise

[Rob Haskins]

Stephen Davies's Themes in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 2003) has a chapter called "John Cage's 4'33": Is it Music?"
 
Rob

Rob Haskins
Assistant Professor of Music
University of New Hampshire
rob_haskins@yahoo.com
http://robhaskins.net

"Heroism doesn't consist in brilliantly combatting someone else. . . .  What is heroic is to accept the situation in which you find yourself."  -- John Cage




----- Original Message ----
From: wim maesschalck <wimmaesschalck@gmail.com>
To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 8:50:22 AM
Subject: [silence] silence, sound, music, noise

Hello dear list,

I've been reading this list for a few months now and i value its source of information wholeheartedly, but now i thought it was a good time to ask a question myself. I'm a philosophy student and I'm writing my final work about the boundaries between silence, sound, music and noise (the latter both in a plain noise context, as in noise music. Obviously Cage is from great importance, and I've been reading bits and pieces about him and about 4'33", but I was wondering of some of you have good recommendations, both in books as in music that could possibly interest me?  From examples that really challenge those boundaries, as well as texts about them. Any link/book/author/composer is greatly appreciated.


I just found out about a new David Toop record where he uses silence a lot apparently, but I haven't had the chance to hear it yet. He also wrote a book "Haunted weather" that should be interesting to other people who want to read more about those boundaries), it's ordered but it takes a while to arrive..


Thanks for reading,


Wim


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